Keep MAP operating

The situation with the Multi-Agency Adolescent Program (MAP) is a travesty. This school has helped so many kids get through school and live a normal life.

The kids who that go to MAP school would be shoved aside in the regular school system. District #81 is not capable of educating these children. These children don't have just have behavorial problems, they have mental health disorders. Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, multiple personality disorder and other mental disorders.

To make any cuts in the way the school operates would be detrimental to the kids it serves. Also, the future of the school remains unclear. This is unacceptable. We need this school in this community; it must remain for the kids that may need it in the future. My daughter was helped a great deal by the MAP school. Julie and BJ helped her so much.

We are casting aside so many kids. Indeed we are casting aside so many with mental disorders. We are shameless!

Helen Wilkerson

The Spokesman Review

Spokane, WA